The rest of the top five was made up of previous releases The Martian, family horror Goosebumps and Tom Hanks film Bridge of Spies.
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And, after making history in the United Kingdom with the biggest opening of all time, Spectre fell just 29% in its 2nd frame there to jump the $100-M mark and put it ahead of Skyfall.
Moving to second place, and the week’s other new wide release, The Peanuts Movie brought in an estimated $45 million from 3,897 theaters.
Worldwide, Spectre has grossed £200 million. “Peanuts” scored even better audience word-of-mouth than “Spectre”, earning an A grade at CinemaScore. That hasn’t happened this year with most award-hopefuls, with movies like “Steve Jobs” opening with strong reviews and high per-screen averages in a handful of theaters, only to stumble as they expand into general release.
Spectre, the latest offering from the James Bond franchise has emerged as the second highest opener at the box-office of all its instalments so far, according to Forbes magazine and trade data reported by the worldwide press.
The folks behind YouTube channel Auralnauts have edited together a almost 40-minute supercut of every death Bond has caused through the 53-year franchise, minus Spectre, which is now in theaters.
Sony, who co-produced the film with Eon Productions and MGM, tried to manage expectations going into the weekend, predicting an opening in the 60 million dollar range. Fox Searchlight’s Oscar hopeful Brooklyn played on five screens and made $181k, while Bryan Cranston in Trumbo made $77k, also on five screens.
Spectre will likely not quite approach Skyfall’s box office peak – critical response has been more muted, and competition from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in two weeks and Star Wars: The Force Awakens next month will steal away audiences both domestically and overseas.
“We certainly needed this infusion of excitement into a marketplace that has been just lying there doing nothing nearly for the past few weeks”, Dergarabedian said. “It took Bond and Brown to get the box office back on track”.
Spectre took an easy first-place spot according to Rentrak estimates.
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Ever since the first trailer showing a CGI Charlie Brown debuted more than a year and a half ago, those who grew up with Peanuts have been crossing their fingers that the filmmakers won’t mishandle the beloved series.
